Yeah everything is messed up right now...just exited out to the main menu after creating a region, getting my city up to about 2000 citizens...and there was no option to resume...it didn't save anything.

I knew beter than to pre-order, but I wanted it so much. I am stuck again in checking for updates. It let me in and then said network error and booted me out again. When the rest of the world goes online I see an even worse disaster. If they would let solo players like me play offline it might help with their server load.

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If the road home crosses any landscape features that include words like "forgotten," "void," "razorthorn," "shadowmist," or "doom," then I vote that we take a nap first.

I'm also curious as to know why game developers seem to want to force you to do the tutorial. Don't they ever have to reinstall, etc? I know I can go to the main menu when it starts, but it is a tad silly.

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If the road home crosses any landscape features that include words like "forgotten," "void," "razorthorn," "shadowmist," or "doom," then I vote that we take a nap first.

OK, I am at my wits end...I created a region, played a few minutes and then exited to the main menu to then send out invites...no luck because the region I created no longer existed it would seem.

Sometimes, I think, it takes a long while to sync saves, if they save at all. Did you make sure you came back to the exact same server? I think most of this is really just server overload problems.

Yup, that was the issue. The region is there, Cities of Gaming Trend, on North America West 1. Once you are on that server, and if I have you on my friends list I can send out invites. My Origin ID is arkon262.

OK, I am at my wits end...I created a region, played a few minutes and then exited to the main menu to then send out invites...no luck because the region I created no longer existed it would seem.

Sometimes, I think, it takes a long while to sync saves, if they save at all. Did you make sure you came back to the exact same server? I think most of this is really just server overload problems.

Yup, that was the issue. The region is there, Cities of Gaming Trend, on North America West 1. Once you are on that server, and if I have you on my friends list I can send out invites. My Origin ID is arkon262.

I'm on North America West 1 and can't find the region. Is it a private game? Add me: PR_GMR.

This is a supposed fix if you're getting stuck on "Checking for Updates". I tried it and it did get me past that error, but then I couldn't log in the rest of the way to see if it worked. It's from the official twitter, but try at your own risk (and please post if it works for you!)

Hi Mayors --If you get stuck on "CHECKING FOR UPDATES" you should delete all files in your User Data.

If you have a desktop shortcut you can right click the icon and select PROPERTIES then delete all files in the User Data folder.If you launch through Origin go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\SimCity\SimCityUserData and delete all files in the User Data folder.

Then run the game again and you should get past that screen.

Note: The recovery tool will not resolve this issue, so please use the directions above.

Tried to send out invites and the people were in my list but when I tried said it was unable to invite friends at this time, then when I went to start playing my city it just did nothing. One friends can't get the tutorial to work and he's tried multiple times on all the servers.

One friends can't get the tutorial to work and he's tried multiple times on all the servers.

yeah, having that issue trying to start up on Arkon's server. couldn't they have flagged your account as having done the tutorial instead of making you fire it up on each server?

How did you even find the server? I'm on West 1 but can't find any way to search at all other than clicking more until it decides not to give you any more... It shows my friends list at 0 as well. Awesome. :/

This is a supposed fix if you're getting stuck on "Checking for Updates". I tried it and it did get me past that error, but then I couldn't log in the rest of the way to see if it worked. It's from the official twitter, but try at your own risk (and please post if it works for you!)

Hi Mayors --If you get stuck on "CHECKING FOR UPDATES" you should delete all files in your User Data.

If you have a desktop shortcut you can right click the icon and select PROPERTIES then delete all files in the User Data folder.If you launch through Origin go to C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin Games\SimCity\SimCityUserData and delete all files in the User Data folder.

Then run the game again and you should get past that screen.

Note: The recovery tool will not resolve this issue, so please use the directions above.

On the subject of bugs: There's gotta be a fix to the 'Tutorial Not Working' bug. Everytime I join a new server, I gotta play thru the tutorial, but it often doesn't work. And it doesn't matter how many times you restart it. You have to basically quit the game and re-join the server to make the tutorial work... but to have to replay the tutorial each time you join a server is just ludicrous.

Tonight, I've not gotten any play.. Due to downed servers and bugs. Again, this has been a horrific mishandled release by EA/Origin. They may have just killed the 'SimCity' franchise.. and that saddens me. I'm still gonna try and play in the coming weeks and hope they iron out the bugs.

Since I've all but given up on finding my own damned region, I've decided to play the game I expected to be playing....

"Unable to create your city at this time, please claim a city again."

Man...so much fun.

Yep. Another tremendously irritating bug. You can't even create your own region. It's next to impossible to claim a city. I just don't understand how they could have released the game in such a wonky state. I've a feeling this needed to be in the oven a few more months.

One friends can't get the tutorial to work and he's tried multiple times on all the servers.

yeah, having that issue trying to start up on Arkon's server. couldn't they have flagged your account as having done the tutorial instead of making you fire it up on each server?

How did you even find the server? I'm on West 1 but can't find any way to search at all other than clicking more until it decides not to give you any more... It shows my friends list at 0 as well. Awesome. :/

the server is West 1, but yeah, I didn't see the GT region listed either.

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Because I can,also because I don't care what you want.XBL: OriginalCeeKayWii U: CeeKay

so, I got in, saw Arkon's invite and claimed Sawyers Hollow. Spent about an hour building up the place, was earning a decent amount of simbucks per hour and had to take a break. came back a bit later....

My city was gone. vanished. if I zoomed in close enough I might have seen CROATOAN carved into a tree trunk.

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Because I can,also because I don't care what you want.XBL: OriginalCeeKayWii U: CeeKay

When I logged in this morning I didn't see any cities claimed yet. I have invites out to PR_GMR, CeeKay, Arnir, TC Weidner and Wonderpug. It looks like I can not see folks on my in game friends list until they have done the tutorial and played a bit on West 1, last night after PR_GMR did that he was able to see me in game and then this morning I could see him to send the invite.

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Ignore any invites you currently have...something got screwed up with the region, creating a whole new region simply named Gaming Trend and will send new invites.

so, I got in, saw Arkon's invite and claimed Sawyers Hollow. Spent about an hour building up the place, was earning a decent amount of simbucks per hour and had to take a break. came back a bit later....

My city was gone. vanished. if I zoomed in close enough I might have seen CROATOAN carved into a tree trunk.

So one thing I am finding is that it would seem I am growing too fast...my city is around 30,000 citizens, and I am not bringing in enough money to keep up with trying to cover power, water and sewage, let alone create jobs and then try to reconfigure to improve traffic flow.